1270 CAPRIFOLIACEAE 
long, serrate with m teeth: cyme 
mer ne convex: eo rolla 5-6 mm. wide: c 
4—5 m n dia ter.— (COMMON- ELDER.)— 
Open piace. ees river- ee and sw m 
various provinces, Ga. to , Man., and 
N. B. 
Simpsonii pcs Tall shrub or 
small tree ACA wh e pith: leaflets 5-9, the 
blades Vd ae end ones elliptie or nearly 
so, 3-8 long, ad eyme flat: corolla 
5-6 mm. in meter. 
EL S ER. 
Eom Coastal Plain, Fla. to La.—Forms 
vast thiekets in the Lake Okeechobee region 
and the coastwise lagoons of southern Florida, where it blooms throughout the 
ar. 
3. S. pubens Michx. Shrub with brown pith: leaflets 5-7, the blades lanceo- 
late, elliptic, or oblanceolate, ee qd oval, 5-15 em. ong: eyme thyrsoid: 
prota 4-5 mm. wide: drupe m. in diam ete r.— ( RED-BERRIED ELDER.) — 
cm hillsides and rocky i. * pTue Ridge and more northern provinces, Ga. 
o Colo., Calif., Alas., Ont., and Newf. 
2. VIBURNUM [ Tourn.] L. Shrubs or trees, the stems not pithy. Leaf- 
blades simple. Flowers in round-topped cymes. Sepals small. Corolla white. 
Anthers oblong. ary l-celled. Drupe with a single stone-—About 100 
species, widely distributed.—Spr.-sum.——ARROW-WOODS. 
EE with some of the marginal flowers radiant and sterile: drupe red to scar- 
I, ALNIFOLIA. 
Ge GS i marginal flowers: drupe blue or dark- 
purple 
.Leaf-blades palmately veined or palmately lobed. II. ACERIFOLIA. 
n Pa veined, entire or toothed. 
Filaments as long as the corolla or longer: leaves with 
n distinetion between blades and NM 
Leaf-blades m straight pinnate veins which ter 
nate in the teeth: stone of the drupe od. 
roove III. DENTATA. 
Leaf- blades with curved veins which anastomose near 
. the entire or toothed margin: stone flat and even. IV. PRUNIFOLIA. 
Filaments much shorter E the corolla: leaves without 
distinetion between blade and petiole. V. OBOVATA. 
I. ALNIFOLIA 
Shrub with diffuse or procumbent, sometimes creeping 
(rooting) branches 1. V. lantanoides. 
II. ACE 
Leaf- Pire with salient lobes, the teeth pare ee acute 
or flar 2. V. acerifolium. 
Leaf- blades. merely tooth ae i obseurely lobed, the teeth 
rounded or relatively blu 3. V. densiflorum. 
III. DENTATA 
Leaf-blades sessile or very short-petioled. 4. Y. Rafinesquianum. 
bo m uis cidedly petioled, sometimes relatively long- 
io E of the leaf-blades glabrous or merely 
with tufts a hairs in the aoe of hen n ns. 
Corolla 5-6 m wide: dru globos 5. nta 
Corolla Scot * E wide: TUO aL Ur 200 oid. 6. Y. aad. 
Lower surfaces of the leaf-blades stellate-pubescent. 7. V. a EI oti 
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